Revisitando los textos fundacionales del feminismo: El segundo sexo desde Shulamith Firestone. La heterogeneidad y proliferación de voces desde el feminismo crítico en sus ideas, denuncias y reivindicaciones

Mérida Donoso, José Antonio

Resumen: The proliferation of critical perspectives in the movement and the proposals for struggle questions the normalization of certain feminist discourses and the assimilation by
certain means and institutions against the discourses excluded by them. Given this reality, this article starts from the need to return to the founding texts by contrasting Simone de Beauvoir’s second sex with “The Dialectic of Sex” of Shulamith Firestone (also called Shulie, or Shuloma), an essential figure in the development of the so-called radical feminism, to analyze the peculiar relations of the movement with society and the dilemmas it faces. The idea is to study its constant redefinition, its action in the social field and the tension between the individuality of women and their gender identity, establishing a dialectic based on the wake of the most paradigmatic authors. Finally, after drawing a vision of plural and critical approaches to the social conflict that implies all subordination and inequality, the above-mentioned and timid normalization or institutional approach to the movement is questioned, both positively and negatively, while deepening the need for critical training in the face of the new challenges of feminism.

Idioma: Español

Año: 2020

Publicado en: Meridian Critic. Analele Universitatii "Stefan cel Mare” Suceava. Seria Filologie 34, 1 (2020), 99-110
ISSN: 2069-6787

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)